| 单词 | technical verse |
| 释义 | > as lemmastechnical verse technical verse n. now historical a verse composed as an aid to memorizing something; cf. memoria technica n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > improvement of memory, mnemonics > [noun] > memory aid prompt1707 technical verse1728 mnemonic1842 mnemonicon1858 knot-writing1896 memory drug1965 mnemotechnic1991 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Technical Verses are commonly compos'd in Latin: They are generally wretched ones, and often barbarous; but 'tis Utility is all aim'd at. a1797 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. (rev. ed.) i. ii, in Wks. (1869) VII. 178 The proficiency of their pupils was estimated principally by the number of technical verses which they retained in their memory. 1860 W. Fleming Vocab. Philos. 307 Rhythm and rhyme giving aid to the memory, technical verses have been framed for that purpose in various departments of study. 2001 R. Black Humanism & Educ. in Medieval & Renaissance Italy iii. 77 Technical verse, whose primary aim was to fix grammatical rules in the memory of pupils. < as lemmas |
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